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G. B. REUSS.

PLOW.

Patented Apr. 20,1886.

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GEORGE B. REUSS, OF HOHEN SOLMS, LOUISIANA.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 340,360, dated April 20, 1886.

Application filed November 24, 1885. Serial No. 183,908. (No model.) 7

' had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

This invention is more especially intended for use in the cultivation of sugar-cane; and it consists in the combination, with a suitable frame, of two distinct plows, each having its separate and positive work to perform, the one throwing dirt or earth to the right and the other to the left of the line of travel.

It further consists in the novel construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved plow. Figs. 2 are perspective views from the front and rear of adjustable beam-plates in which the plow-standards are adapted to be secured. Fig. 3 is a perspective view from the rear and standard side of one of the plows, and Fig. 4 is a vertical crosssection of the guide or gage wheel and its standard.

On the drawings, the letters A B designate 'the plow-beams, the latter composed of two pieces, the adjacent ends of which are securely bolted between the outer ends of a pair of intermediate arched plates, 0 d. The aforesaid beams are held at proper distance part, either in parallel positions or otherwise, by means of cross ties or bars E F G, the outer ends of which are provided with a series of vertical perforations for the reception of bolts, which also pass through perforations in the beams A B. The cross-ties or bars E F are arranged across the forward ends of the plow-beams, and about midway between the perforations in same are secured a draft-pole, H, and a pair of diagonal braces, cf. At the rear of the implement the guide-bars I l have their forward ends pivotally connected with the sides of thebeanis A B, so that their rear ends or handles may be adjusted to suit the height of the attendant, and be thus securely bolted to the perforated standards L L, which are socured to the rear cross tie or bar, G, by means of the same bolts, whereby the said cross tie or bar is secured to the plow-beams.

,The letter M designates plates, (more clearly shown at Figs. 2,) each having alongitudinal recess, i, formed in one side thereof, of sufficient width and depth to fit snugly to the sides of either plow-beam. The opposite sides of these plates are provided with projecting side lugs, t 4;, between which the standards of the plows or guide-wheel are adapted to fit and be secured in their relative positions at the sides of the plow-beams by means of stirrups N, the ends of which are sufficiently long to straddle either beam and to receive on same a perforated bar or clamp, O, and securingnuts, as shown at 70 is. The forward plow, P, is secured to the beam A immediately opposite to or a little in advance of the arched plates 0 d of the beam B, with its mold-board or discharge end toward same, so that all grass and clods of earth raised by the plow shall pass freely under the aforesaid arched plates and be dropped outside of the line of travel of the rear plow, It, which is secured to the beam B in rear of the arched plates thereof, with its mold-board faced inwardly, so as to take up the earth turned by the forward plow and return it in a pulverized state.

To limit the throw of the pulverized earth, the mold-board of the rear plow is formed in two sections,with a hinge, Z, connecting same, and a rod,m, pivotally connected with the outer end of the swinging section for operating or holding the same at any desired angle to suit the nature or condition of the soil operated on. The rod m is held against the under surface of the plow-beam carrying the plow to which it belongs by means of an cyebolt, n, through the eye of which it passes. The stem of the aforesaid bolt passes upwardly through a vertical hole made in the plow-beam, so that a nut, 1, applied to the threaded end thereof, shall serve to draw the same upwardly, and

To the same beam, and in rear of position.

thus secure the adjusting-rod in any desired ,7

somewhat longer than the other, so as to be bent from and then parallel with the shorter piece, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4. The lower ends of these pieces are each provided at like distances from the extremities thereof with vertical slots t t, and above same with boltholes, the latter for the reception of bolts u u, whereby journal-boxes v 1:, having slotted holes in the upper portions thereof, are adjnstably connected therewith. The lower ends of the journal-boxes are each provided with projections w w,in which annular recesses are made to form bearings for the turned portions of the wheel -hub, and the said hub has a round hole made through its axial center for the passage of the bolt m, which is made sufficiently long to extend through holes made in the journalboxes on a line with the centers of the annular recesses aforesaid and through the slotted ends of the pieces q q, so that by means of a nut, 2, applied to the threaded end of the bolt x, the lower portions of the pieces may be drawn toward one another un til the opposite ends of the wheel-hub shall have attained their proper hearings in the journal-boxes, asshown more clearly in Fig. 4.

Instead of constructing the beam A in two parts and connecting same by arched plates, as described, the said beam may be made in a single piece having a curve or arch bent-or otherwise formed therein. The landside or side bar of the forward plow is provided on its outer face and at its lower rear corner with a. projection or lip, a, which cuts under the iide of the drill,and thus serves to steady the plow in its operations. The rear plow is constructed without a side bar or landside, in order to lessen the draft of same, the said plow being run perfectly steady by reason of its relative position to the front plow. By this arrangement of plows it is impossible for any hard spots or line of earth to remain next the cane-drill, and thus owing to the thorough working of same the seed-canes placed therein are not subject to be plowed out when going over same, as in the old style of single barring ofi'.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The combination, in a ridging-plow, of the beam A, central arched beam, B, the adjustable cross-bars having a tongue secured thereto, forward plow,P, the rear plow,R,having a mold-board with a hinged section and an adjusting rod, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of the beam A, arched beam B, adjustable cross-bars E F G, and draft-tongue H, the plow 1?, rear plow, R, with hinged mold-board, and a gagewheel adapted to be secured to the rear part of the frame or beams, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Gr B. REUSS.

\Vitnesses:

J. F. ALLAIN, J NO. D. OANTEY. 

